Alex Thomson
The dangers of Rangers’ tax shambles
Alex Thomson on the several hundred emails he received from Rangers and Celtic fans about Ranger going into administration.
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Alex Thomson
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Alex Thomson
Rangers on the rack – but they’ll be back.
There’s a sale on at Ibrox. In the Rangers Megastore they took the shirts down a while ago, then slashed the price again. You can get all manner of bargains. 75 per cent off. And you can buy Ibrox too.
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Alex Thomson
Kabul, where childhood – and children – are cheap
Everyday at cock-crow, in the biting sub-zero of a terrible winter even by Kabuli standards, Najib sets out to pick up recyclable plastic from the streets and herd the family’s sheep to forage on the rubbish heaps at the same time.
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Alex Thomson
Burning the Koran is not just burning ‘another book’
Whether non-Muslims wish to comprehend this or not, the Koran is not “just a book” as one Twitter follower told me this morning. It is, literally, perceived by the faithful to be the word of God and in few countries more than Afghanistan.
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Alex Thomson
Video blog: Training for a marathon in Kabul
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson video blogs on training for a marathon in Kabul.
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Alex Thomson
Britain’s idea of snow is ‘frankly hilarious’
Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on the relentless snow hitting Kabul and why Britain’s idea of winter is “frankly hilarious”.
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Alex Thomson
Video blog: lunchtime Kabul style
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson video blogs on his staple diet in Afghanistan.
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Alex Thomson
Hope on the streets of Kabul
Alex Thomson reports some surprising results in a bit of truly unscientific opinion polling of the people of Kabul.
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Alex Thomson
That’s how it rolls on ‘Taliban Street’
Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson blogs on his unexpected encounter with a Taliban “big beast”.
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Alex Thomson
Nato report – an indictment of western policy in Afghanistan?
Two reports made public in the space of a few weeks add up to a damning and corroborative indictment of western policy in Afghanistan – to say nothing of Pakistan’s policy here writes Channel 4 News Chief Correspondent Alex Thomson.
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Alex Thomson
Kabul: where entering your hotel is a daily battle
A history of conflict and a decade of nation-building means that getting in and out of Kabul hotels – each of which is a sizeable target – is a real accomplishment.
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Alex Thomson
Expect more posturing over Afghanistan
Will the Taliban renounce “international terrorism” as the US demands? Will they get their prisoners out of Guantanamo Bay? And will they recognise the Karzai regime in Kabul at all? Once you see movement on this you can start taking matters seriously.
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Alex Thomson
The two faces of Afghanistan
Afghans enjoy winter sports after Friday prayers in Tabul – but a cemetery nearby reveals another side to Afghanistan’s ancient city.
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Alex Thomson
The extremes of an Afghan winter
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.
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The extremes of an Afghan winter
Arriving in Kabul’s homely – if beaten-up – airport after Dubai is always something of a contrast. Never more so in my experience than this morning. The Hindu Kush mountains brilliant in deep mid-winter snows. But not just the Kush. The Afghan capital gleams under a foot or so and this morning’s temperature dipped to minus 12.